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And young people most affected by overexposure digital: the press of information?

Small: Yes, and often spend more time online than the cultivation of direct social relations. The young man who is in full swing even more vulnerable. The brain has not fully developed frontal lobe, and the part that separates us from the animals and control the most complex ideas and have the ability to plan.

Reporter: Is this exacerbates differences between youth and adults?

Small: Yes In addition to the traditional gap between the generations, and is characterized by differences in cultural values, attitudes and preferences, and we are seeing the emergence of a gap between the brain young. On one side are the indigenous peoples in the digital age. They were born after 80S, in the world of computers, which are soaked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Then there are digital immigrants, and those who know computers and technology of the digital age adults. BRAIN PEAK

Reporter: What are the differences between the two groups?

Small: a typical digital immigrants, people who are usually more than 30 years, was very different in terms of training, education and social education. Tasks step by step, one at a time. Learning and systematic implementation to work more accurately. With more oriented towards social networking skills, which are slower with respect to adaptation and use of new technologies. Digital Citizens are the best to make quick decisions and put a lot of sensory stimuli from the environment.

Reporter: Click on the information you want is obtained. This makes us think less? We have become impatient?

Small: I think we sacrifice the depth of breadth. We tend to constantly seek information on the Internet, our minds go from one place to another. Technology encourage us to move forward, rather than make us stop and think. It is possible that this feature of technological means, if combined with excessive exposure, and leads to attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity. It can also lead to technological addiction.

Reporter: Why do you say that the technology can cause excessive stress and damage to the brain circuits? BRAIN PEAK

Small: The digital revolution and immersed us in a state of continuous partial attention. We manned permanently. Continuous partial attention differs from multitasking, and we do not have the goal of all the parallel actions and try to improve our efficiency and productivity. When we pay continuous partial attention, we put our minds at the Stadium of high tension. We do not have time to think, analyze and make informed decisions. And people will live in a permanent state of crisis, in a state of constant alert to what is eager for a new contact or some new information.